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Predominantly women, not men, kill children

According to Jeff White, writing for the Report
Newsmagazine, men are brutes who 'always specialized in killing older children.' However,
it is women, not men, who kill more children, by far.

The following article was commissioned by the Report Newsmagazine
but was not published. Apparently it became overlooked and forgotten. I can't
blame the editor for that. He was busy fighting
a case
for freedom of the press in a Human Rights Tribunal of the Alberta Human Rights
Commission at the time.

Response to Jeff White

Andrea Yates notwithstanding, .all
men are beastly brutes, if we are to believe what Jeff White told us.

According to Jeff White, "Men have always specialized in wholesale killing of
older children." Well, maybe he has always done so (how did he get away with it?),
but nobody else I know did. He told more whoppers in his article. He mentioned a survey
(unnamed) "of 35 cultures from around the world," that "found that 21 of
them killed deformed or sickly children," and "positively demanded" their
deaths. "Only Christians didn't approve of it." By my reckoning, 35 - 21 = 14.
Were those 14 cultures exclusively Christian? Did Jews and Muslims habitually kill their
disabled children? Are Christians to be despised for bringing an end to the practice of
destroying those that don't conform to pagan ideals of beauty or convenience? Hitler
promoted such "Whitish" cleansing. The more of our Christian ideals we discard,
the more the people on the Left cleanse. It's now a women's right!

In addressing the topic of the male role in "serious domestic violent crime,"
Jeff White covered a selective and very broad range of subjects, localities and much
anecdotal evidence. From there he then drifted back to Canada and cemented his hypothesis
of men being habitual killers of their families firmly into place with StatCan's estimates
on partner violence, even if covering only a fraction of family violence. Those data
relate to all alleged violence between men and women only, including instances of men
yelling at their wives, giving them the cold shoulder or "scaring" them. They
are demonstrably tainted with StatCan's pro-feminist and family-hostile editorial bias.
Moreover, they are not even based on biased convictions but largely on the results of
telephone surveys.[1] Why not, advocacy numbers fit a pet
theory so much better, right?

StatCan's very broad definitions of "mother" and "father"
deliberately mislead. A "spouse" could mean just about anyone in the presence of
a woman or man, no matter the duration or quality of the presence. "Mother" is
likely to be a natural mother, whereas "father" is most likely any man but a
natural father. Thereby it is made to appear that we can safely ignore the far superior
safety of families headed by married biological parents. However, in their care, as
Patrick Fagan from the Heritage Foundation identified, children are 33 times less likely
to be seriously abused and 73 times less likely to be killed than in single-mother
"families."[2]

American government agencies report numbers that are more objective, not as subjective
as those Jeff White selected. In the US in 1999, 70.3 percent of perpetrators of child
abuse were female parents acting alone or with others. Out of an estimated 826,000 victims
of child maltreatment, nation-wide, 1,100 were fatalities. Their perpetrators break down
as follows:

* "Male parent" in that context most likely is just about anything but a
natural father.

That means that, acting alone or with others, female parents were responsible in 69.1
percent, and male parents in 33.1 percent of cases of fatal child maltreatment.

Contrary to Jeff White's yarn, if anyone cornered the market on the killing of
children, women did, not men! Furthermore, considering stepfathers, common-law husbands,
boyfriends and other strange males involved in the lives of women and in the abuse of
"women's" children, it emerges that natural fathers are the least likely to
let harm come to any child. That's what we should try to establish, not deny and twist
around.

Not much can be gained by tarring all men or women with the same brush. It would be a
long jump from the circumstance that at most three percent of people engage in child abuse
to the assertion that therefore all women (or all men) are child abusers. Such jumps in
logic are a prerogative usurped by feminists, not the mark of an objective journalist.

Space doesn't permit to go into the misperceptions promoted by Jeff White with respect
to partner violence. He should look up the studies undertaken by Drs. John Archer, Martin
Fiebert and others.[4] Newspapers, too, in spite of their
liberal bent still provide much useful information, as long as we can keep it free of
editorializing by uninformed people or those with an agenda. By the way, there were no
"horrors of the Yates trial," but the trial exposed, examined and judged the
horrors visited by Andrea Yates on the children she and her husband conceived.

Was it necessary to publish an article that contained such a large collection of
misleading information? Aren't men being vilified enough already without anyone adding to
the general slander directed against them? Let's hope that Jeff White's article is not a
sign of worse things to come, and that we won't see the Report join the drive to keep
women and "their" children safe from those beastly brutish men, although the
media frequently report that women kill children in revenge against the children's
fathers.

What's next, the promotion of deadly ideologies of people like Prof. Steven Pinker?
(" birth is as arbitrary a milestone as any other" in setting a boundary
for the killing of a child [5]) They significantly extend
abortion to include the new-born whose continued life will depend solely on a
"rational" decision by the mother, all in compliance with the "prehistoric
tradition of infanticide as the oldest method of reproductive control." At least
Steven Pinker, who used almost identical words, only speculated that there may have been
such a tradition. On Jeff White's keyboard it became an assertion. The Report printed it
and always told the truth before, therefore the "prehistoric tradition" (an
oxymoron) must be true?

1.) "Family Violence in Canada 2000  An Alternative
Approach," by Eeva Sodhi, a letter to Statistics Canada, posted 2000 08 31, at
http://fathersforlife.org/Sodhi/fvcans1.htm, a critique
pointing out flaws in the method of presentation and in the statistics contained in:
Statistics Canada pub. "Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile 2000"
Cat. No. 85-224 (Note: Interestingly, in her commentary, Eeva Sodhi identifies and
analyses precisely those statistics by which StatCan misleads the uninformed in exactly
the manner in which Jeff White got mislead.)